Explicitness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or characteristic of being explicit. uncountable, usually

    "Despite their careless scholarship and a less tangible quality that some would call a tin ear for poetry, Morris Halle and S. J. Keyser, as metrists, have the considerable virtue of explicitness."

  2. 2
    clarity as a consequence of being explicit wordnet

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claritycoherenceconsistencydefinitiondirectnessdistinctness

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"Despite their careless scholarship and a less tangible quality that some would call a tin ear for poetry, Morris Halle and S. J. Keyser, as metrists, have the considerable virtue of explicitness."

Etymology

From explicit + -ness.

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